Excerpt from With Kuroki in Manchuria<br><br>In a few hours the soldiers - dropping their peace tasks wherever the pink tickets found them - began to arrive, and settled down in their quarters, quiet, welcome guests of quiet hosts. Why go out and cheer when you may sit over the hibachi and smile with the heroes-to - be, who, augustly condescending, have deigned to honor a poor domicile with their presence?<br><br>At the Russian Legation the gates are closed. No Japanese stops in passing. The native attendants in the little lodges on either side of the massive grill Work, with its gold - crowned double - headed eagle, press their faces to the windows querulously. The thin columns of smoke rising from the chimneys form the only other Sign of life. Within the Silent structure are the sole beings in all Japan who de sire Russian success. Baron de Rosen and the attachés, awaiting their departure, might well wish for a crowd and some signs of demonstration to break the sinister quiet.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.